MODELS 2017 - 2017 ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

Foundations Track Papers
We invite authors to submit high quality contributions describing significant, original, and unpublished results in the following categories:
Technical papers should describe innovative research in model-based engineering activities. They should describe a novel contribution to the field and should carefully support claims of novelty with citations to the relevant literature. Where a submission builds upon previous work of the author(s), the novelty of the new contribution must be clearly described with respect to the previous work. Papers should also clearly discuss how the results were validated (formal proofs, controlled experiments, case studies, simulations, ...). Authors are encouraged to make the artifacts used for the evaluation publically accessible.
New ideas papers describing new, non-conventional model-based development research positions or approaches. New ideas submissions are intended to describe well- defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation and may not be fully validated.
MDE in Practice Track Papers
We invite authors to submit original experience reports and case studies. Each paper should provide clear take-away value by describing the context of a problem of practical, industrial importance and application. The paper should discuss why the solution of the problem is innovative, effective, or efficient and what likely industrial impact it has or will have; it should provide a concise explanation of the approach, techniques, and methodologies employed, and explain the best practices that emerged, tools developed, and/or software processes involved.
Modeling Pearls
MoDELS 15 solicits "Modeling Pearls" as a separate track (they were introduced in MoDEL 14 in the foundations track).
Modeling Pearls are polished, elegant, instructive, and insightful applications of modeling techniques or approaches. Modeling pearls include demonstration case studies that illustrate good modeling practices and techniques, examples of bad modeling practices that exemplify the problems that can occur if they are not detected and rectified (e.g., modeling examples that show the problems that occur when models use inappropriate abstractions), and models used in the classroom or paper to illustrate modeling concepts and practices. Submissions in this category need not report original research results. Authors must make fully documented models and other artifacts used in their papers accessible to reviewers by uploading them to the Repository for Model-Driven Development (ReMoDD). Artifacts associated with accepted papers in this category will be made publicly available via ReMoDD. Instructions for uploading modeling pearls submissions will be made available on the ReMoDD site.
Topics of interest
Submissions are sought on any topic of modeling for software and systems engineering, including, but not limited to:
Development, use, and evolution of domain-specific modeling languages
Evaluation and comparison of modeling languages, techniques and tools
Evolution of general-purpose modeling languages and related standards
Definition of the syntax and semantics of modeling and model transformation languages
Tools, meta-tools and Language workbenches for model-based engineering, including model management aspects
Definition, usage, and analysis of generative and reengineering approaches
Integration of modeling languages and tools (hybrid multi-modeling approaches)
Quality assurance (analysis, testing, verification) for functional and non-functional properties of models and model transformations
Development of systems engineering and modeling-in-the-large concepts
New paradigms, formalisms, applications, approaches, frameworks, or processes for model-based development
Modeling in Software engineering
Modeling with, and for, new and emerging systems and paradigms such as cyber-physical systems, cloud computing, data analytics, big data, systems engineering, social media, devices and services, mobile applications, open source software, ...
Modeling for development challenges such as collaboration, scalability, security, interoperability, adaptability, energy efficiency,..